Basket.



N0. 8873.411. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908. 0. E. MILLER.

BASKET.

APPL IOATION FILED MAY14 ,1906.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR.

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COLONEL ELLSWORTH MILLER, OF EDGERTON, OHIO, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TOFREDERICK .llIlQl/EBRAND, OF PEltRYSBURG, OHIO.

BASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed May 14, 1906. Serial No. 316,664.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, COLONEL ELLswou'rn MILLER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Edgerton, in the county of lVilliams and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baskets and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and ligures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to baskets and is designed to furnish an article ofthis character which shall be strong, durable, light, and cheap.

My invention is also designed to provide a basket which shall dispensewith the usual basket-material and which shall be woven out of stoutstrips of paper, strawboard, or the like.

My invention is further designed to furnish a handle for a basket whichmay be disposed in such fashion as to permit the convenient nesting ofthe baskets for transportation, and which, in its mode of attachment,furnishes means for strengthening and stiffening the basket.

I attain these objects by means of the devices and arrangement of partshereinafter described and shown, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my basket, and Fig.2, a transverse sectional elevation of my handle, hereinafter referredto, showing the manner of placing the same in and out of operativeposition.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both figures.

In the drawings, 11 are stri )s or ribbons of tough strong paper ofsuitable width and length. These strips, or the paper from which theyare cut, may, if desired, be

treated with parallin or other waterproofing substance and they may be,for the sake of ornamentation, of various colors. These strips are wovenin the usual manner into any desired basket form. The upper edge of thebasket is reinforced on its inner side by sup plemental strip 2 and onits outer side by supplemental strip These reinforcing strips may besecured to the basket and to each other by means of stout rivets oreyelets 1, or equivalent devices.

5-5 are wires woven into the body of the basket and spaced symmetricallya art, as illustrated in the dra\\"ings. Each of the extremities of eachof these wires projects upwardly beyond the margin of the basket, theprojecting part being turned back upon itself to form a hook or eye (3.Thus these hooks or eyes are formed in pairs at opposite sides of thebasket.

77 are wire bails, the extremities of which are formed as hooks 8 andare engaged respectively with the corres )onding hooks or eyes 6.Secured to one of tlie bails, midway of its length, is a handle 9composed of a rectangular sheet metal blank one of the mar gins of whichis crimped loosely around the bail 7 as at 10, thus forming an eye orpivot upon which the part S) may be turned freely. The handle is formedas a cylinder and has a longitudinal opening 11 on one side, one of themargins of the opening being connected with the eye 10 by the llatradial portion 12, as clearly illustrated in both figures of thedrawings. The bail 7 to which the handle is pivoted is brought intoproper position with the opening 11 presented to the opposed bail whichis slipped laterally into the opening 11 of the handle, as illustratedby the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The handle is now turned as indicated bythe arrow and is caused to describe a complete revolution upon itspivotal support on bail 7. This movement of the handle brings the bail 7into the closed angle of the part 12 and the cylindrical wall of thehandle, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Now the two bails are locked securelyto the handle in such fashion that they cannot become accidentallydisplaced. When the handles are not to be used or when the basket is tobe nested with other baskets for transportation, the reverse movement ofthe handle 9 will disengage the bail 7 so that the two balls may bethrown out of the way, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. Bythis construction it will be seen that the basket is supported from fourpoints upon the ends of stout wires which embrace the basket, and thatby this arrangement of the handle and bails and the wires 0 the basket iis given stability and is given added strength.

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of said bails and having inits side a ongituis dinal opening adapted for lateral engage- A basketcomprising a series of strips ment with the other of said bails.

5 Woven into basket form, reinforcing strips In testimony whereof IaffiX my signature 15 for the edge of the basket, a pair of Wire merninpresence of two Witnesses. bers Woven into the bottom and sides of theC. ELLSl/VORTH MILLER. basket and having upwardly projecting endsWitnesses: which are turned back upon themselves, a PREsToN V. ROSE,

Having described my invention, What I said pair of Wires, a handlepivoted u on one 0.pair of bails engaged with the extremities of SAMUELFRITZ.

